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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus dir. Terry Gilliam (trailer)

by Matt Mazur

[10.Aug.09] :. This new Terry Gilliam film will surely get major play because it features the final performance of Heath Ledger, but that aside, the visual side of the movie looks mind-blowing. Add in Colin...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Outside the Lines - The Top 20 International/Indie Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. With many indie/international films receiving more and more mainstream approval from unfamiliar audiences, many of the titles here could be considered part of the overall 2008 Best Of. But their individuality and multicultural appeal keep them a quality concept apart.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Short Ends and Leader

‘Pride and Glory’ is Solid but Predictable

by Bill Gibron

[24.Oct.08] :. By now, we understand the corruption festering under the thin blue line. Call it The Departed Syndrome, or the Badge-Carrying Whistleblower’s Waltz but movies portraying policeman as...

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Pride and Glory

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Oct.08] :. By the time Eladio (Rick Gonzalez) makes his single-scene appearance in Pride and Glory, the fate of his adversary has been exhaustively telegraphed.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

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Colin Farrell is not your ordinary hit man

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[14.Feb.08] :. Bruges, the Belgian port city known for its medieval architecture and Flemishness, is referred to in such unspeakable terms during the upcoming “In Bruges” that one would have expected...

 

In Bruges

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Feb.08] :. For all the showy action and spurty blood, it's the evolving intimacy between Ken and Ray that is most compelling in In Bruges.

 

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor is in big demand

by Joseph V. Amodio [Newsday (MCT)]

[31.Jan.08] :. Ewan McGregor’s been busy. He’s got a handful of films coming out, starting with Woody Allen’s latest, “Cassandra’s Dream,” starring McGregor and Colin Farrell as...

 

Cassandra’s Dream

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jan.08] :. The first few minutes of Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream are not bad.

 

Colin Farrell plays against type in new Woody Allen movie

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[14.Jan.08] :. For an actor of just 31, Colin Farrell has squeezed an awful lot of “bad boy” into his brief career. Two-fisted movie roles in films such as “Intermission,”...

 

Miami Vice (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.06] :. Gong Li's face and form are made for this: she absorbs the movie's energies and just like that, it hardly matters what Crockett or Tubbs thinks he's doing.

 

Ask the Dust (2006)

by Jesse Hassenger

[31.Mar.06] :. Colin Farrell's voiceover at the beginning of Ask the Dust makes it clear that Robert Towne's new film is in love with words.

 

The New World (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.05] :. The New World is ambitious and gorgeous, the landscape serving as a kind of objective correlative for characters' cravings and astonishments.

 

Alexander: Director’s Cut (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Aug.05] :. Oliver Stone calls his Alexander 'a new genre, a masculine-feminine action figure,' more like Monty Clift and James Dean than Russell Crowe.

 

Alexander (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Nov.04] :. Though Olympias is unbeatably charismatic (and plain fun amid all the drearily inclined boys), the film takes a typically Stonian approach to the evil woman.

 

Intermission (2003)

by Tim O'Neil

[18.Oct.04] :. Intermission repeatedly frustrates audience expectations.

 

A Home at the End of the World (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jul.04] :. Unfortunately, Bobby's (Colin Farrell) vagueness tends to be more tiresome than inspiring.

 

S.W.A.T. (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Jan.04] :. S.W.A.T. knows what it is, namely, an expensive, hyper-actionated, CD-selling, multi-raced and multi-buddied flick.

 

Veronica Guerin (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.03] :. Such moments illustrate Veronica's earnest incentive while undermining her hard work with crazily implausible coincidences.

 

S.W.A.T. (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Aug.03] :. S.W.A.T. knows what it is, namely, an expensive, hyper-actionated, cd-selling, multi-raced and multi-buddied flick.

 

Daredevil (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.03] :. Daredevil has good reasons for his gear, and for the screwed-up attitude that goes with.

 

Phone Booth (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jul.03] :. We're surrounded by spin all the time and I think that many times people who spin for a living really don't know the truth anymore because, I guess, they have to believe so much in the spin that they are spinning.

 

Phone Booth (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Apr.03] :. A function of increasing anxieties about security, surveillance technology, and loss of privacy, this sniper is symptomatic.

 

Daredevil (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Feb.03] :. It's unlikely that this gloominess accounts for Daredevil's big success. There are any number of plausible explanations -- the 'Sexiest Man Alive' and his J. Lo glow, the promotional blitz, the Marvel machine. No matter. Bring the pain.

 

Daredevil (2003)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[13.Feb.03] :. The good news is that Johnson's Daredevil follows Marvel's disability politics.

 

The Recruit (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jan.03] :. For all its protests to the contrary, in this movie, everything is exactly what it seems.

 

Minority Report (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jun.02] :. Based on a story published by Philip K. Dick in 1956, 'Minority Report' is science-fiction of the sort that Dick preferred to write -- set in the future, but all wrapped up in concerns that are immediately relevant to the present moment (that the same concerns were relevant back in 1956 is not a little unnerving, as will become clear).

 

Tigerland (2000/2001)

by Lesley M. Smith

'Tigerland' turns that same step of acknowledging a responsibility greater than oneself into a personal defeat, the inevitable breaking of a rebel.